St. John's wort grass. Use and contraindications

As soon as they did not call St. John's wort in Russia! Bloody, heroic blood, chamber, Ivanovo grass, twig ...

It is believed that St. John's wort treats 99 diseases, which is not far from the truth. It grows in Russia, Mongolia, European countries. The plant, sometimes reaching a meter in height, has a very long, thin stem root, creeping on the ground. Most often, the chamber has several stems. More often they are dihedral, less often - tetrahedral. The tops of the stems are decorated with large golden yellow flowers, painted with black dots. The leaves of the twig are not very large, perforated. They gave the official name to grass: Hypericum perforatum. St. John's wort is an herb whose use for medicinal purposes is undeniable, in horses and sheep can cause serious illness, for which it got its name.

Wortwort prefers bright forests, loves meadows, sunny edges. In Russia there are special plantations on which this grass is grown for medical needs.

So how useful is St. John's wort? Ivanovo grass is rich in tarry, tannins, which help stop bleeding and stop diarrhea. It contains a lot of essential oils, carotene, vitamin C, rutin, and other substances that help regenerate damaged tissues, fight microbes, bacteria.

If you need to strengthen the walls of the capillaries, increase pressure, calm your nerves or stimulate your appetite, St. John's wort will come to the rescue. Its use for the treatment of male impotence, female pattern baldness, and skin normalization has been confirmed by time.

To prepare the preparations, the whole plant is cut off, dried in air, spread out in a thin layer. Ready dried raw materials are a mixture of leaves, stems and flowers.

Naturally, like all medicines and plants, ivan grass has contraindications. It is undesirable to use it in the summer, because it dramatically increases the skin's susceptibility to sunlight. St. John's wort during pregnancy can lead to a miscarriage. It is not recommended for hypertensive patients and young children. Particularly cautious should be drunk preparations of the spruce for those who take antidepressants, contraceptives or antibiotics. With barely pronounced toxic properties, twig can dramatically affect their effect.

There are legends that male St. John's wort can cause St. John's wort. Excessive use of it can really be harmful, and not only for men. That is why before starting treatment you need to get the advice of a doctor. However, the competent use of the Chertogan, on the contrary, can greatly increase male power.

The medicine is prepared like this. 5 teaspoons of clover, nettle and good blood are brewed in a liter thermos, left for 20 minutes, drunk four times a day. In a week, problems with potency will begin to disappear.

The recipe can be simplified. It is enough to drink tea daily from a spoon of hypericum, brewed with a glass of boiling water.

In classical pharmacology, drugs that have a sedative effect are prepared from St. John's wort herb. The finished medicine, which is available in the form of various tablets, gelatin capsules, dragees, or a liquid solution called St. John's wort perforated herb extract, is an antidepressant of plant origin.

St. John's wort can cure skin diseases, the use of which helps to get rid of pustular diseases, dermatitis, even vitiligo.

For the treatment of vitiligo in a thermos, an infusion of 3 tablespoons of raw materials and a glass of water is prepared. They drink it three times a day. If the treatment is carried out regularly, and on the street to hide spots from the sun, the skin will begin to take on a normal appearance.

Pustular diseases, ulcers, burns are treated with infusion of flowers of Ivanovo grass in olive or linseed oil. It is better to take not dried, but freshly picked flowers (25 pieces), insist them for 2 weeks in oil (200 g) in the dark, and then grease the affected skin with the bright red preparation.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/C22754/


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